Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news, when the reception of Miss Elder by the Portuguese authorities and the perennial vagaries of Prince Carol hold the headlines, it is small wonder that newspapers seize upon the information that Vassar seniors are building for themselves a smoking room. The first, and possibly the most logical comment, is "what of it?" On closer examination, however, a few quirks of the feminine mind appear; the room, to be luxuriously equipped by the smoking seniors, is for their use alone; no members of the lower classes, no guests, no masculine visitors. Well may they post a Keep Out sign reading...
...Comment. These facts considered, it was surprising to see the Smith-smitten New York World, leading Democrat of the East, leap precipitously upon Senator Reed as follows...
...There has been recently a lot of talk by public men and the press over the alarming concentration of power in the Federal Government at Washington. Most of the talk as well as the comment has been general and little of it specific. . . . This all seems trivial to me, in contrast with other things that have happened...
...powerful line that followed the ball unusually well, but the score shows the difference in methods of offense. Harvard's plug-a-way style could not possibly net the same yardage as Dartmouth's varied offensive attack," McAvoy seconded MacPhail's praise of the Harvard center, but declined to comment upon the work of the Crimson ends...
...clearly remember reading in TIME of about two months back, an editorial comment which spoke scornfully of "fancy spellings"; the examples you gave were, "favour, catalogue...